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Security official says tip-off from French led to last-minute cancellation of last week’s Germany-Netherlands football friendly in Hanover

Terrorists planned to detonate three bombs inside the stadium during a friendly international football match in Hanover last week, an attack that was thwarted by cancelling the match at the last minute, according to a security official.

The official told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that German security agents were tipped off by French counterparts that a terror cell planned to detonate five bombs in Hanover, including three inside the football stadium, one at a bus stop and one at a railway station.

Terrorists ‘planned to detonate three bombs inside German stadium’

Security official says tip-off from French led to last-minute cancellation of last week’s Germany-Netherlands football friendly in Hanover

Terrorists planned to detonate three bombs inside the stadium during a friendly international football match in Hanover last week, an attack that was thwarted by cancelling the match at the last minute, according to a security official.

The official told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that German security agents were tipped off by French counterparts that a terror cell planned to detonate five bombs in Hanover, including three inside the football stadium, one at a bus stop and one at a railway station.

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Terrorists ‘planned to detonate three bombs inside German stadium’

Security official says tip-off from French led to last-minute cancellation of last week’s Germany-Netherlands football friendly in Hanover

Terrorists planned to detonate three bombs inside the stadium during a friendly international football match in Hanover last week, an attack that was thwarted by cancelling the match at the last minute, according to a security official.

The official told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that German security agents were tipped off by French counterparts that a terror cell planned to detonate five bombs in Hanover, including three inside the football stadium, one at a bus stop and one at a railway station.